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King has another legacy that may have an even bigger impact in the 21st century.

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While many of the methods that King described are no longer used in Asia, farmers I talk to today are embracing age-old methods, even plowing with oxen, to keep costs down and to create food with great flavor.

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“Time is a function of every life process as it is of every physical, chemical and mental reaction. The husbandman is an industrial biologist and as such is compelled to shape his operations so as to conform with the time requirements of his crops. LEXAPRO FOR SALE, The oriental farmer is a time economizer beyond all others. He utilizes the first and last minute and all that are between . . .

They have long realized that much time is required to transform organic matter into forms available for plant food and although they are the heaviest users in the world, the largest portion of this organic matter is predigested with soil or subsoil before it is applied to their fields, and at an enormous cost of human time and labor, but it practically lengthens their growing season and enables them to adopt a system of multiple cropping which would not otherwise be possible.

By planting in hills and rows with intertillage it is very common to see three crops growing upon the same field at one time, but in different stages of maturity, one nearly ready to harvest, one just coming up, and the other at the stage when it is drawing most heavily upon the soil. By such practice, with heavy fertilization, and by supplemental irrigation when needful, the soil is made to do full duty throughout the growing season.”